MUSKEGON — A second McLaughlin Elementary School crossing guard has told police that she was nearly abducted by a black man driving a red car — the same description and scenario reported by another student on Nov. 19.

Muskegon Police Lt. Leah Fenwick said the more recent incident was reported at 3:51 p.m. Tuesday, after the 10-year-old student, a crossing guard at Jiroch Street and Irwin Avenue, ran to the school and told officials there that a man told her to get in his car.

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Anyone with information about an Oct. 8 abduction and assault, or attempted abductions that were reported Nov. 19 and Tuesday, is asked to call Muskegon Police at 724-6750, Silent Observer at 72-CRIME or 911.

The girl told police the incident happened around 3:40 p.m. while she was finishing her duties as a crosswalk safety guard, Fenwick said.

“She said she was getting ready to walk back toward the school and a red vehicle pulled up and the man told her to get in the car,” Fenwick said. “She turned and ran toward the school and reported it.”

The girl described the man as in his 20s with very short hair and no facial hair.

“We are continuing to look into it,” Fenwick said.

Police are also continuing their investigation into the Nov. 19 incident. In that case, a 10-year-old crossing guard working at the McLaughlin Elementary crosswalk at Catherine Avenue and Arthur Street said she was told to get into a red, four-door vehicle driven by a black man in his 20s with a full beard and mustache.

In both cases, the crossing guards did not use two-way radios supplied to them by school officials, Fenwick said.

The latest reports come nearly two months after a 9-year-old girl was abducted around 6:55 a.m. Oct. 8 from her Three Oaks Academy bus stop near Terrace Street and Irwin Avenue. That is about a quarter-mile from where the more recent incidents were reported.

In the Oct. 8 case, the man took the girl from the bus stop to a nearby alley and assaulted her, police said. She was discovered by police and her grandfather around 20 minutes after the assault, naked and scared, police had said.

The investigation into that abduction and assault is ongoing, Fenwick said.